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Does your company have solid due diligence and sustainability policies? Are your standard precedent agreements geared for a world in which sustainability is the focus?

In many of our past articles, we have focused on traditional aspects of intellectual property ("IP"), such as the creation, acquisition, and enforcement of rights.

South Africa's latest investment announcements have put the country back into the conversation for international investors. With record commitments across energy, infrastructure, manufacturing...

In South Africa, all companies and close corporations must disclose beneficial ownership information to the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC).

The Apple Store launched in July 2008 and made available to iOS users some 800 applications ("Apps") to download. As of March 2017, this number had increased to 2.2 million.

Property developers wishing to obtain property rights are advised to proceed under the existing provincial ordinances to change land rights.

A recent South African High Court decision explores some interesting issues regarding the scope of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Commission's (the "Commission") ...

When a company faces liquidation, winding-up or deregistration the instinct might be to brace for tax consequences, but section 47 of the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962...

As organisations rapidly adopt AI capabilities through familiar SaaS delivery models, a critical misalignment has emerged between traditional software contracts and the novel risks introduced by AI systems.

In the JBCC cancellation clause there is a provision to the effect that neither the employer nor the contractor can cancel the contract if at the time the party wishing to cancel is itself in breach of a material term of the contract.

As of 9 January 2019, and estimated 402 141 students were enrolled in the 1966 independent schools scattered throughout South Africa.

Getting a summons issued is only half the battle in a debt recovery or enforcement matter. The other half is making sure the defendant is properly served...

The OW Bunker Group 2013 "Terms and Conditions of sale for Marine Bunkers" provide for English law and London arbitration.

The Constitutional Court's decision in Absa Bank Ltd v SARS marks a pivotal shift in how South African courts approach tax avoidance structures, moving beyond technical compliance to examine the true commercial substance of transactions. This judgment signals a broader regulatory trend where authorities increasingly look through carefully engineered corporate structures to ask what was really happening, challenging the long-held assumption that technical legal compliance provides immunity from scrutiny.

The Supreme Court of Appeal has also, on several occasions, articulated the guarantor's obligation to make payment in terms of a letter of credit or on-demand bond.

On 3 June 2022, changes to the Magistrate's Court, High Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal rules were published in the Government Gazette.

AI systems are generating new categories of data that challenge traditional SaaS contract definitions, creating potential disputes between vendors and customers over ownership and usage rights. As synthetic data, embeddings, and vector databases emerge from AI processes, existing contractual frameworks for anonymised and aggregated data may prove inadequate to address the commercial, legal, and regulatory risks these novel datasets present.